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John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, was born on 8 September 1442, the second son of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (23 April 1408 – 26 February 1462), and his wife Elizabeth Howard (c. 1410–1474), the daughter of Sir John Howard and Joan Walton.
James Hutchings "Si" Taylor, OC (born March 25, 1930) is a Canadian former diplomat who served as the Chancellor of McMaster University from 1992 to 1998. Taylor was born and raised in Hamilton [1] and was a Rhodes Scholar, graduating from McMaster in 1951. He worked for the Canadian Department of External Affairs for 40 years and served posts ...
Ernest Taylor (Royal Navy officer) (1876–1971), British Royal Navy vice admiral Henry Clay Taylor (1845–1904), U.S. Navy rear admiral James E. Taylor (born 1935), U.S. Navy rear admiral
James Edward Taylor (born August 30, 1935) [1] [2] was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. He was Chief of the United States Naval Reserve from August 1989 until September 1992. [3] He was succeeded by Thomas F. Hall. [4] Born and raised in Alabama, [2] Taylor entered the United States Navy through the Naval Aviation Cadet Program. He ...
He became Commander of the 2nd Battle Squadron in 1930 and Rear Admiral Submarines in 1931. [2] He was appointed Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff in 1932, promoted vice-admiral on 1 September 1933, [3] and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the China Station in 1936. [2] In 1938 he became Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. [2]
Samuel Eliot Morison was born July 9, 1887, in Boston, Massachusetts, to John Holmes Morison (1856–1911) and Emily Marshall (Eliot) Morison (1857–1925).He was named for his maternal grandfather Samuel Eliot—a historian, educator, and public-minded citizen of Boston and Hartford, Connecticut.
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As Lord Admiral, Howard, with a fleet of 28 ships, met King Philip II on his arrival in England in 1555, and in August of that year escorted the King to Flanders. [19] In 1557 Howard's fleet transported a force under the command of the Earl of Pembroke to Calais. [ 20 ]